Friday Afternoon Links
This and that to start your weekend. – Robert Reich discusses how the increasing concentration of corporate wealth and power is undermining the U.S.’ democracy, while noting that there’s only…
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The Beginning of the End
Sixty years ago, the end began. It would take almost a full year for the Allies to batter the Third Reich into submission, but in the summer of 1944, the…
Pretend News vs Real News
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The superficiality of much of the news provided by the corporate media is not only insulting, it is a conditioning mechanism. Latest figures out of the US…
The Mulcair Solution: Fence-Sitting as Political Suicide….
Quebec NDP MP Sana Hassainia defects over Mideast position By Susana Mas, CBC News Posted: Aug 20, 2014 1:48 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 20, 2014 7:16 PM ET Sad…
No Surrender
Anyone who plays chess, as I like to pretend I do, knows there comes a time when surrender is the only strategy left to you. Having matched wits with your…
David Suzuki: Leaders must put people before politics
G7 leaders meet in The Hague in 2014 When we elect people to office, we give them power to make and enact decisions on our behalf. They should have a…
Police Violence Rages in Ferguson, MO
The out-of-control police response to protests against the killing of Michael Brown in a St. Louis, MO suburb, continues. Our reporter @rdevro was shot with rubber bullets/beanbags by police last…
Burnaby fires back at Kinder Morgan with constitutional challenge
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan continues to be a thorn in Kinder Morgan’s side (Image: Youtube) Read this Aug. 11 story by Jennifer Moreau in the Burnaby Now on Burnaby Council’s…
The Ballad of #MikeBrown
a young Dylan would've written a song: THE BALLAD OF MICHAEL BROWN. #Ferguson— Raffi Cavoukian (@Raffi_RC) August 15, 2014 If you go to Quik Trip You’d better take your gun,…
Epic Fourth
Watched “Epic” about little tree people. “Born on the Fourth of July” a 1989 Tom Cruise movie about a Vietnam vet who protests the war. A Marvel Avengers cartoon movie…
Politicians and Cars #nlpoli
The Liberals are touting their latest campaign-style television spot featuring Dwight Ball talking about accountability and connecting with voters. In the spot, he’s driving somewhere in the driving province and…
ConCalls: Michael Sona Found Guilty of Being Pierre Poutine in #RoboCon
While Sona’s been found guilty of one charge, questions remain about how he would have managed to have log files removed from CPC Headquarter’s computer database known as CIMS. "There…
The Soviet Machiavelli
I’ve written a new piece for my Municipal Machiavelli blog about the late (1982) Mikhail Suslov, the “Soviet Machiavelli.” You can read it here: www.ianchadwick.com/machiavelli/the-soviet-machiavelli/ Suslov was the power behind…
Running to Lead
A small number are willing to re-elect Rob Ford. They are going down with his ship as surely as the Titanic’s band. It is encouraging that these people are in…
Goodbye Robin.
Robin Williams has always been a part of my life. One of the earliest proper TV shows I remember watching was Mork and Mindy, about a strange guy with a…
Montaigne and Machiavelli
Michel de Montaigne mentioned Machiavelli only twice in his Essays, both in Book Two. This tells us he was aware of the latter, but not whether he was intimately familiar…
Avoid Brown’s Social House
Nicola Tee wrote: Hey! Just wondering why you have the archaic & sexist rule that your waitresses have to wear a minimum 1″ heel while they’re on their feet all…
The note to Justin Trudeau
Exclusive! The note left in Justin Trudeau’s residence after the breakin. Filed under: comment Tagged: Canada, election, politics, satire, satire already sheesh